I had some fun with this. First I researched the word culture and I suppose the core meaning for “deculture”, for me atleast, would be a fragmentation of common thought or belief held by a culture at any given observed time. Metaphorically it would be looking at any culture at any time, through a crystal of sorts.

Fragmentation of normality can sometimes yield serendipities that lead to pioneering forward and lateral thoughts based on the common. Once you find that uncommon reality based on common reality, and prune the unneeded something amazingly clear and simple comes to light.

That is generally my “design” philosophy which is subject to change due to the fact that one reality is never repeated or constant and easily influenced by external factors.

With all that in mind I present the deculture logo.

YAY!

That is all I can say. I have owned an iPhone 3G for about 5 months now and it has always frustrated me how thin the data is with regard to the iPhone Google Maps application that can be found on the phone.

The application itself is superb and its GPS is not bad when you are in a cell phone enriched area, however when you have main roads in Johannesburg (like Rivonia Rd) being referred to as the R55 or other such names it becomes near impossible to use for directions unless you know where you are going which defeats the purpose.

This article explains more, and my sources say Google plan to have completed the updates by July this year.

Yesterday there was a brief outage of Gmail. It was apparent (mainly through Twitter), that the fault lay directly with Gmail. The problem for me lasted about 2 hours until eventually Gmail sputtered back into life churning millions of emails hourly.

I have often viewed Gmail and other Google services as a form of Cloud Computing, and Cloud Computing in my opinion is a natural evolution of computers connected to the internet. It makes sense – perfect sense.

When you live in a country where an uncapped 4MB line costs more than the repayments of a small car, land cables are often stolen and wireless internet alternatives come across as amateurish is cloud computing a realistic goal.

I am not entirely sure how Microsoft would run an OS over the air, but I imagine a fair bit of downloading would be required. Where would my files be kept? Online? How would a service pack work.

What happens when my core cloud computing OS fails because some cleaner, in some office, in some country unplugged the red plug. Then what?

I don’t know if this is evidence of a younger generation taking hold, or the fact that there are still so many problems with cloud computing.

Imagine. You hold up an entire corporation because you lock them out their own system. Demand cyber-rent?

I don’t know. Hardware… Software all in the same room seems more tangible and reliable then that cloud in the sky already taking so much of my time as it is
I think we will all naturally move toward cloud computing as it evolves and becomes a common entity, however I still think there are a multitude of problems, costs and connectivity contingencies that need to be sorted out first, before we are hailed into a new era.

Came across this 3D spider developed in Adobe Flash. I love just how real the spider moves. You can mess about with certain attributes of the spider which is fun for a while. Although there is little commercial value in its current state, I think with the right campaign or client request something could be had with this little Flashling.

Play with the spider here.

If you like me and you use Adobe Flash as a designer/developer and are still stuck in coding with actionscript2, then you will probably be as upset as I was to discover that Adobe in all their wisdom decided people like to wait for help files online with their new Adobe Creative Suit4, especially if you live in a bandwidth starved country.

Well I sniffed around and found this useful link on Adobe site which allows you to download an offline version of ActionScript2 help. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Addendum_10.0/

You can find other general and ActionScript3 off line help on your computer under:

C:Program Files/CommonFiles/Adobe/Help/en_US

Would be nice if Adobe did not assume we have internet connectivity 24/7 – although in this day and age we should.

EDIT
Here is a great link pointed out by Wouter that goes into greater detail about this problem: the link